Improvement in meat and vegetable mashers



-. little-eiste este @idf-tf* To whom Muay concern i l y Be it knownl that` I,".GEoEGE A. ANDEEsoN` and' CHARLES J. BAKER, of the city and county 'of Al- Letters Patent No. 108,083; dated october 11, i870.

i' JMPRovEMENT 1N MEAT AND vt-:cu-l-ABLEI MA'sHERs.

The Schedule: referred to in these Letters' Patent ad'rrnaking part of the same.

'bany, State ot' New York, have invented a new andl improved Domestic .Utensil `for b Preparing Potatoes and Meat for Food;.a`nd we'do hereby declareth'at `:the following is a descxiptionthereof, 4reference being had to, the `accompanyingdrawings forming a part vof this. specification, in which-s- Figure 1 represents at view of the invention from `-its lower or i'acc side, andillustra-tes the improvev ments. L e b b Figure 2 represents a viewof the upper side of the utensil. y i

Figure 3 is alcrossfsection of thentensil as improved,

and embodying the several perforations Vand project` t ing teeth, and illustrating their arrangementen the `face of the same, and also the mode of attaching the -handles to the same. i y, ifi e `The nature of our inyentin consists in thefcornhination of seieral series offincising teeth, with 'per` foration's ina metal disk, or plate of metal, `whichzs attached to a suitable handle,'aud the whole so arranged as. tobe capable of `being operatedb'y pressure or'pounding in such a' manner that the said 'teethandperforations will operate toyseparate, mash, out, or otherwise afi'ec'tlthe particles of themcat'or vegetables operated upon; theobject ofI thisiuvention being to afford arready,si|npl`e, and cheap utensil, with which potatoes and other `vegetables oan'be readily and easily mashed, 'and4 fy which meat can -be cut or contused, andthereby'made tender.,:` i L 'lo enableothersskilled.iugthe art to make and use `our liiwenton,we `will proceed to describe it in 'reference to the drawings and the 'letters of reference. marked thereon, the same letters indicating 4like parts. i A, fig. l1, represents `a piece `ot" metal, (wexwould prefer cast malleable iron,) which may he square, cir- Into thesaid metalpiece is made any suitable number of perforations, a a, which may be circular or any other form. i e

Projecting'om the lowerI side of vthe metal piece `A are teeth'for incisors, which iu'cisors maybe more or less sharp, as may be desired,and will be best adapted'to the substance to be` operated upon. Y

l, The perbrations o o-and incisors c c are placed alternate, or, Viu other words, two opposite sldes of Athe "of the metal piece A to a suitable distance, as shown in igs. 1A and 3. Te prefer to have thev said incisors c to have `.their width run in the direction of the radii of a circle, as

closing the ontenseres of perforations a with the'lim inclosing the nnerlseries of perforations (t, and'per- .A mit the'metal ot' the diskAbeingmade lighter. lAny suitable handle, 13, maybe. provided, and may be secured bya socket, b, asin ligs'.2 and 3, or in any cured. The handle may be either upright, as iu fig. 3, or onan angle shown in dotted lines.

it down on the said vegetables, when the incisors o o will enter lthe vegetables and split them at eac'h point openings au. After the operatonllms been repeated a little'time the vegetables will become thoroughly broken onmashedt InV4 operating 'uponmeat the operator -grasps the vhandle `B,` (we would .prefer a handle 'running oi at alfangleLas in fig; 3,) and beats the said meat quite heavily, when the incisorsc will enter and cut or oo ntuse,` while portions ot' the same will rise up into the openings t .a by reason of the concussion.v A few blows with this instrument will render the toughest meat tender. t

Havingdescribed our invention,

ent, is

A potato or meat-pounder or lnashcr, constructed of the metal piece A, provided with the perforations a, a and projections c c, placed alternate, andarranged substantially as and' for the purpose set forth.

t GEORGE A. ANDERSON.

CHARLES J BAKER.

Witnesses ALEX. SELKIRK, J AMES A. BUGKBEE, Jr. v,

said perfor-ations depend down below the main body shown in iig; `1which wouldstrengthen the rim, iul other manner by'which sufficient strength may-he sey In operating ou potatoes, or other Vegetables, the operator grasps the handle B, if upright, and presses `in contact,when the broken portions oiftliei'egeta-v bles operated upon-will rise up and pass through the- That we claiin, and'desire to secure by Lettersv Pat- 

